Undergarment.



A. BELOTTI.

UNDERGARMENT. APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 1. m4.

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Specification of Letters Eatent.

Application filed September 1, 1914. Serial No. 859,620.

To all whom it may] concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS Bnno'r'rr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Amsterdam, county of Montgomery, and State of New York,.l1ave invented certain new and useful Improvements in Undergarments, of which the following is a specitication.

The invention relates to such improvements and consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and the reference characters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar characters refer to similar parts in the. several figures therein.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a view in rear elevation of an undergarment embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, showing the shoulder portion folded over upon the top portion for convenience of illustration. Fig. 3 is a view in front elevation of the same. Fig. 4 is a vertical cross-section taken through the shoulder portion of the; garment on the broken line H in Fig. 8. Fig. 5 is a plan view of one of the crotch-flaps.

This invention is applicable to garments made of various materials, and. is more particularly adapted for union or combination undergarments made of knitted fabric.

The principal objects of the invention are to facilitate the putting on and the removal of the garment, to avoidthe use of buttons upon the front of the garment, and to improve the fit of the garment, particularly around the body and at the crotch.

Referring to the drawings wherein the inf vention is shown in preferred form, 1, is the body of the garment having integral legportions, 2, and preferably having sleeves, 3, attached to the body of the garment by seams, 4:, at the arm-openings in the body. The body of the garment is closed at both front and back, being preferably made of tubular knitted fabric.

The garment is provided with the usual neck-opening at, 5, and with shoulder-openings, 6, extending along the highest part of the respective shoulders from the neck-opening, 5, substantially to the arm-openings at the scams, 4. In the preferred construction shown, the shoulder-openings, 6, are closed at their outer ends by the respective sleeves, 3. In use, the sl1oulder-openings, 6, are adapted to be closed by suitable fastening devices, such as buttons, 7, and buttonholes, 8.

The crotch-portion of the garment is formed by means of an inner flap, 9, and an outer flap, 10, said flaps being trapezoidal and alike in size and shape. Each of the flaps, 9 and 10, has a ll-shaped lower end, 11, which extends downward along the inner side of} the leg-portion, 2, into the leg-seam, 12, on the inner side of the leg. Said flaps also have lapping ll-shaped upper ends, 13, inserted and stitched in the upper end of an opening formed by cutting the tubular web of fabric forming the body of the garment fiolna point at about the waist-line at the back of the garment to some distance below the crotch to receive the lower ends, 11, of the flaps, and upward on the front of the body of the garment to receive the lapping ll-shaped upper front ends, 14, of the respective flaps. The two flaps, 9 and 10, being alike in form and size are thus symmetrically disposed. upon the garment and overlap each other throughout their length, the outer edges of the respective flaps being secured to the body of the garment by seams, 15, and the inner portions of the flaps loosely lapping each other. The lapping portion of the flaps, 9 and 10, may, if desired, be detachably secured together as by a button, 17, and buttonhole, 16. Each of the flaps, 9 and 10, is made of a single piece of fabric.

. By means of the construction above described, I obtain ample space in the seat of the garment and prevent the same from gaping open thereat.

The garment being closed, at both front and back from. the neck opening to the waist-line conforms snugly to the body of the wearer, and is free from buttons at the front.

lVhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is The herein described union suit, the body of which is of a single thickness front and neck opening, with extensions of such opening leading substantially centrally of the back, and is provided, in addition to the shoulders the full Width of thebody of the In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set suit,' whereby the nepk opening and the ex; my hand this 29th day of August, 1914. tensions permit the p ssage therethrough o *1 q r the body of the pers gn during the putting AUGUbTUb BELOT 5 on or taking off of the suit; and fastening. Vitnesses:

devices for connecting the edges of the ex- Rosn A. LEDUC, tensions of the neck opening together. GERTRUDE M. Prrz. 

